Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Quill Tip Tuesday

Create a routine for yourself. Write at the same time, every day, if you can. It will help you brain turn on and get into writing mode if it becomes a routine thing.

Listen to music. Lots of music. Make playlists. Lots of playlists. Music can help get you into writing mode, and help set the mood. I have several different "battle" playlists from when I was writing fantasy, and I find that in writing historical fiction, listening to scores form films set in the same time period helps more than anything. Of course, Owl City is never a bad thing ;) This is the Future, anyone?

7 comments:

I listen to Owl City while I do math every day. The carefree, happy-go-lucky way they have with music keeps me from going crazy and ripping my math book to shreds. :P

Enya, Loreena Mckennitt, and the 'Becoming Jane' soundtrack, are the music tracks I listen to most often while writing. Enya's 'Watermark' is just about the most beautiful song ever, and Loreena Mckennitt's music has such an other-wordly, fantasy, celtic-y feel to it... ^.^

YAY!!! Someone else who agrees with me! I always listen to music when I write and when I type the stories on the computer. Although I can and will write without music, I like it better with music. Some of my favorite writing cds are:

Regarding the Steward of the Castle:

T.D., short for The Director, is a college freshman who feels five years old some days and twenty-five on others. She tries to love the Lord with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength but she is but a lowly mortal who gets distracted by pretty lights and shiny objects. She loves writing, making music, sharing the things God is doing in her life, and getting to know people. Unfortunately she's rather long-winded but she tries to make it worth your time.
She's plagued by delusions of grandeur and wants to be a filmmaker, screenwriter, missionary, teacher, musician, semi-famous-youtuber, and travel the world and live in a cozy apartment above a music store in the city. Preferably all at once.